from The world is round / Gertrude Stein -- I an cherry alive / Delmore Schwartz -- My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Crying / Galway Kinnell -- O dear! How disgusting is life! / Edward Lear -- Bad morning / Langston Hughes -- Ode to Pablo's tennis shoes / Gary Soto -- Don't worry if your job is small / anonymous -- It couldn't be done / Edgar Albert Guest -- Personal / Langston Hughes -- A man said / Stephen Crane -- Sonnet 94 / William Shakespeare -- Dust of snow / Robert Frost -- If... / Rudyard Kipling -- from A drama of exile / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Between what I see and what I say... / Octavio Paz -- Micah 6:8 -- Disobedience / A.A. Milne -- Brother / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Brother and sister / Lewis Carroll -- If Little Red Riding Hood... / Jeff Moss -- Andre / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The parent / Ogden Nash -- Bilingual/Bilingüe / Rhina P. Espaillat -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- Manners / Elizabeth Bishop -- Bee! I'm expecting you! / Emily Dickinson -- Vade mecum / Billy Collins -- Evil / Langston Hughes -- A poison tree / William Blake -- Tableau / Countee Cullen -- Voices rising / DreamYard Prep Slam Team -- He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats -- The dream keeper / Langston Hughes -- A blessing / James Wright -- Invitation to love / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 / Saint Paul -- For Katrina's sun-dial / Henry van Dyke -- Liberty / Janet S. Wong -- The little elf / John Kendrick Bangs -- The fairies / Rose Fyleman -- I'd love to be a fairy's child / Robert Graves -- Some one / Walter de la Mare -- Under the bed / Penny Trzynka -- What's that? / Florence Parry Heide -- from The masque of queens / Ben Jonson -- Song of the ogres / W.H. Auden -- The splendour falls on castle walls / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Foolish questions -- Way down south / anonymous -- There was an old man in a garden / Edward Lear -- There was an old person whose habits / Edward Lear -- Baby ate a microchip / Neal Levin -- from Through the looking-glass / Lewis Carroll -- Herbert Glerbert / Jack Prelutsky -- The toys talk of the world / Katharine Pyle -- All about boys and girls / John Ciardi -- Some words inside of words / Richard Wilbur -- The tale of Custard the dragon / Ogden Nash -- Duty of the student / Edward Anthony -- Gnome / Samuel Beckett -- Sick / Shel Silverstein -- Homework / Jane Yolen -- Lucky trade / Matthew M. Fredericks -- Bubble troubles / Janet S. Wong -- How to paint a donkey / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The lesson / Billy Collins -- Theme for English B / Langston Hughes -- if everything happens that can't be done / E.E. Cummings -- The secret sits / Robert Frost -- Hide-and-seek, 1933 / Galway Kinnell -- Block city / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The girls in the circle / Nikki Giovanni -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Slam, dunk, & hook / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Defender / Linda Sue Park -- Zuri at bat / Nikki Grimes -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Casey's revenge / Grantland Rice -- May / John Updike -- Will, lost in a sea of trouble / Archilochos -- The destruction of Sennacherib / George Gordon, Lord Byon -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- from Henry V, IV, iii, 56-67 / William Shakespeare -- Shiloh / Herman Melville -- Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln -- Charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Ukase / C.G. Tiggas -- When he was small, when he would fall / Vladimir Nabokov -- The unknown soldier / Billy Rose -- First they came for the Jews / Martin Niemöller -- from Voices from Lemnos / Seamus Heaney -- Peace / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- from Auguries of innocence / William Blake -- Happy thought / Robert Louis Stevenson -- What are heavy? / Christina Rossetti -- Devotion / Robert Frost -- Will there really be a "morning"? / Emily Dickinson -- Ballad of the morning streets / Amiri Baraka -- who are you, little i / E.E. Cummings -- In beauty may I walk / from the Navajo -- Tommy / Gwendolyn Brooks -- from As you like it, II, v, 5-12; 18-
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